Hello and welcome to The Daring Cardmakers blog!
We are a team of card-makers from the UK, mainland Europe and India who'll try to inspire and encourage you to make some wonderful cards.
Every Friday at about 10am UK time, one of our design team will post a new dare/challenge, along with our creations to get you inspired.
So go on, give it a try - we dare you!
Leave us a comment with a link to your card so that we can view your lovely creations too!

Friday, February 26, 2016

I hope you all enjoyed Zuzana’s geometrical patterns challenge as much as I did. The blog and your entries certainly looked in good shape!

It’s Svenja here with a new challenge for you. It is…..

simply ir-resistable

make a card using some kind of resist technique.

Resist Technique has fascinated
me ever since I first came across it. I think it’s just this magical
moment when an image appears from a white background – like in the
photography-lab back in school.

And there’s so many different
ways to achieve the effect: you could use resist-ink like VersaMark, you
could do an emboss-resist technique (ironing the embossed bits off or
leaving the on, just as you like) or even use
some wax to keep the colour off your paper (even a candle might do
there).

So, will you join me in the magic? The members of the Design Team already have and just look at all the beautiful creations they came up with!

Friday, February 12, 2016

Thanks
to all crafters who joined our inspirational picture dare last week.

It
was good to see some colour during these grey February days.

It’s Miri here this
week and Carnival season has just finished … but we hope that you will find
many more reasons to celebrate, dress up, behave a bit crazy and have fun with
your loved ones this year.

So show us a real

PARTY ANIMAL!

Put an animal on your card …
even better when it’s celebrating and/or in a good mood.

To cheer up and get
some ideas, have a look at the design teams’ creations.

We're so pleased she's agreed to play along with us this month and showcase her cards on our blog.

Please check out Bev's Blog HERE, you're sure to enjoy your visit!***(scroll down to find out how you could be a DCM Guest Designer)

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It's the first Friday of the month so time for some

FebruaryElementalInspiration

All you need to do is choose a minimum of three elements from the picture to inspire your design. The colours only count for one element. Let us know which three, (or more) elements you chose when you share your finished project.

Here's what the design team have created to give you even more lush inspiration....

Monday, February 01, 2016

The Daring
Cardmakers are always looking for talented cardmakers to join us as
Guest Designers, so would you be interested in coming to play with

us
for a while?

As you know, we feature a wide range of styles and techniques and as we have no affiliations our challenges are always fresh and varied!

You probably already know the sort of thing we do, but why not scroll down through our challenges (there are TEN years worth on here!) to get a better feel for our dares and our style - and how you would help make our blog look even better and fulfil our "Create - Inspire - Share" mantra

We would love to showcase more designers here on our blog and on

our Facebook page so we are currently drawing up a list of those who are interested in joining us for a few weeks

Interested?

Leave a message on this thread (email addresses and any info you give will be safe as comments on this thread will not be published)

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Copyright Notice

We are happy to share our designs here in the hope that they inspire you to develop your own ideas. However, please respect our right not to have our designs copied or "lifted" - direct copying of any design shown on this blog or our personal blogs is an infringement of copyright.

If you are pinning our cards on Pinterest please quote Daring Cardmakers and the individual designers name as the reference in the description.

Would You Like to Play?

Click on the link, or contact Kathy

Sponsoring Us

Please don't use our challenges simply to publicise products you are selling. Instead, how about sponsoring one of our dares?Contact one of the team via our personal blogs for more information